The CountdownIn the concluding book in the otherworldly Taking trilogy, Kyra struggles to understand who she is as she races to save the world from complete destruction. Ever since Kyra was abducted by aliens and then returned to earth, she has known there was something different about her. Now she knows the truth: she is an alien too. Her alien captors replaced all her human DNA with their owngifting her with supernatural powers like incredible healing, enhanced

Lesser has walked two main paths in her life—the spiritual path and the feminist one—paths that sometimes cross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes

and whatever (Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut)

The second book in Rhiannon Thomas’s epic retelling of Sleeping Beauty combines adventure

Performed by Dan Stevens

to her Brahmin grandfather—a brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet tooth—to the man seemingly wrong for her in every way who proved to be her truest ally

The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World is a shocking look at the seedy world of the real young Hollywood

they ask a host of typically off-center questions: Why don’t flight attendants get tipped

An Unforgettable New Girl: Cassidy Thorpe—with her flash mobs

a gentle African-American astronomer

sex and love

Chosen One Prophecy: As the bearer of the living Godstone

giving them a twist